Reviewing children's collaboration practices in storytelling environments

Traditional Storytelling fosters creativity, imagination, socialization, and full body engagement. On the other hand, digital storytelling promises additional benefits as for example multi-media use and more kinds of expressions. While this is comprehensible, digital storytelling should still appreciate benefits of traditional storytelling. In reviewing digital storytelling literature we found that many described case studies and systems may potentially fulfill these requirements but are still in need for improvement. We found three understandings of storytelling within the papers (remote authoring, collocated authoring, and enriched experiences). To fully meet the benefits of traditional storytelling future digital storytelling environments should provide authoring tools that support children's collaboration practices to create, share, and perform stories.